Tips & Tricks To Track Your German Russian Ancestors - Tip # 1 - Start With You

As you start your genealogical research, you need to start to think of yourself as a genealogy gatherer. You need to gather everything you can to help build your family history. The goal is to record your own personal milestones to create a timeline of your life, then  your parent's lives, then your grandparents' lives and so on.

Use every tool possible...

• Write down everything your remember,
• make notes about the history of an heirloom, 
• organize family recipes, 
• consolidate photographs and home movies to help resurrect memories and build detailed milestones.

Be sure to:

• Incorporate stories you have heard, things you believe,
• Anything you can remember about you and your family. 
• Include traditions and examples of what everyday life was like,
• Add Stories you have heard that you may or may not be able to verify. 

It's best to do this over time as trying to do it in one sitting is too challenging. It's truly an adventure of your lifetime to assimilate these details to build a full family history.

Perhaps you can ask cousins, aunts, uncles...there is usually someone in the family who has taken on the role of family record keeper.  You need to find them and become their favorite relative!

Everything is a clue which can help you build the milestones. Some of the stories may include things you family didn't want to talk about...and that's ok. Everyone has some sad stories and we all have at least one black sheep in the family.  Some of the most interesting stories are there.  And, after reviewing some of these stories, if you aren't certain who is the black sheep of your family, perhaps you need to consider that it might be you!

Stay tuned, as Tip #2 will be coming soon.

©2019 Anna Dalhaimer Bartkowski

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